GWENDOLYN BROOKS: FURTHER READING

Bibliography

Gerry, Thomas M. F. Contemporary Canadian and U.S. Women of Letters: An Annotated Bibliography. New York: Garland, 1993, 287 p.

Bibliographies of various North American women writers.

Loff, Jon N. "Gwendolyn Brooks: A Bibliography." CLA Journal 17, no. 1 (September 1973): 21-32.

Record of Brooks's published works and a listing of reviews and essays on her writings.

Biographies

Kent, George E. A Life of Gwendolyn Brooks. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1990, 287 p.

Biography of Brooks, compiled with her full cooperation, by a long-time admirer of her work.

Melham, D. H. Gwendolyn Brooks: Poetry and the Heroic Voice. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1987, 270 p.

Biography, analysis and bibliographical materials.

Shaw, Harry B. Gwendolyn Brooks. Boston: Twayne, 1980, 200 p.

Comprehensive coverage of Brooks's life with critical essays on her major publications.

Criticism

Burr, Zofia. "Reading Gwendolyn Brooks Across Audiences." In Of Women, Poetry, and Power: Strategies of Address in Dickinson, Miles, Brooks, Lorde, and Angelou, pp. 113-51. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002.

Examination of Brooks's relationships with her white editors and the differing responses by black and white readers to her work.

Gayles, Gloria Wade, editor. Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2003, 167 p.

Provides various interviews with Brooks.

Georgoudaki, Ekaterini. "Black and White Women in Poems by Angelou, Brooks, Dove, Giovanni, and Lorde: Complex and Ambivalent Relationships." In Race, Gender, and Class Perspectives in the Works of Maya Angelou, Gwendolyn Brooks, Rita Dove, Nikki Giovanni, and Audre Lorde, pp. 143-95. Thessaloniki, Greece: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 1991.

Compares the representations of black/white female relationships in the work of five African American poets.

Hubbard, Stacy Carson. "'A Splintery Box': Race and Gender in the Sonnets of Gwendolyn Brooks." Genre 25, no. 1 (spring 1992): 47-64.

Examines Brooks's use of the traditional sonnet form to serve a black, female voice.

Hughes, Gertrude Reif. "Making It Really New: Hilda Doolittle, Gwendolyn Brooks, and the Feminist Potential of Modern Poetry." In On Gwendolyn Brooks: Reliant Contemplation, edited by Stephen Caldwell Wright, pp. 186-212. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996.

Explores the way Brooks and H. D. employed the conventions of modernist poetry to challenge male privilege.

Mullen, Bill V. "Engendering the Cultural Front: Gwendolyn Brooks, Black Women, and Class Struggle in Poetry." In Popular Fronts: Chicago and African-American Cultural Politics, 1935-46, pp. 148-80. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999.

Discusses the Chicago setting of Brooks's work and the poet's contributions to the African American community on the city's South Side.

Park, You-Me Gayle Wald. "Native Daughters in the Promised Land: Gender, Race, and the Question of Separate Spheres." In No More Separate Spheres!, edited by Cathy N. Davidson and Jessamyn Hatcher, pp. 263-87. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2002.

Analysis of the boundaries between public and private domains in texts by African American and Asian American writers. Includes a discussion of Brooks's novel Maud Martha.

OTHER SOURCES FROM GALE:

Additional coverage of Brooks's life and career is contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: African American Writers, Eds. 1, 2; American Writers Supplement, Vol. 3; Authors and Artists for Young Adults, Vol. 20; Authors in the News, Vol. 1; Black Literature Criticism; Black Writers, Eds. 2, 3; Children's Literature Review, Vol. 27; Concise Dictionary of American Literary Biography, 1941-1968; Contemporary Authors, Vols. 1-4R, 190; Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, Vols. 1, 27, 52, 75; Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vols. 1, 2, 4, 5, 15, 49, 125; Contemporary Poets, Ed. 7; Contemporary Women Poets; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 5, 76, 165; DISCovering Authors; DISCovering Authors: Canadian Edition; DISCovering Authors Modules: Most-Studied Authors, Multicultural, and Poets; DISCovering Authors 3.0; Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century, Ed. 3; Exploring Poetry; Literature Resource Center; Major 20th-Century Writers, Eds. 1, 2; Modern American Women Writers; Poetry Criticism, Vol. 7; Poetry for Students, Vols. 1, 2, 4, 6; Reference Guide to American Literature, Ed. 4; Something about the Author, Vols. 6, 123; Twayne's United States Authors; World Literature Criticism; and World Poets.